Eisenhower: Soldier and President (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671747589)

Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.

He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower's magnificent leadership as Allied Supreme Commander. Ambrose's recounting of Eisenhower's presidency, the first of the Cold War, brings to life a man and a country struggling with issues as diverse as civil rights, atomic weapons, communism, and a new global role.

Along the way, Ambrose follows the 34th President's relations with the people closest to him, most of all Mamie, his son John, and Kay Summersby, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Harry Truman, Nixon, Dulles, Khrushchev, Joe McCarthy, and indeed, all the American and world leaders of his time. This superb interpretation of Eisenhower's life confirms Stephen Ambrose's position as one of our finest historians.

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
ISBN-10: 0671747584
ISBN-13: 9780671747589
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 10/15/1991
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.13w x 1.59d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10
Point Value: 46
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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